Values, Ethics and Working Collaboratively

This report discusses the definition of ethics, factors influencing ethics, importance of workplace ethics, UK laws promoting ethical practices, and collaborative working strategies. It also explores the legal rights of individuals under GDPR.

Values, Ethics and Working
Collaboratively
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Table of Contents
1INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................3
2TASK 1- Newspaper Article..........................................................................................................3
1A) Definition of ethics and factors that influence the ethics.....................................................3
2B) Importance of workplace ethics, including the positive and negative experience for
organization.................................................................................................................................4
3c) Uk laws to promote ethical practices in business.................................................................4
3TASK 2- Creates a Cause and Effect.............................................................................................5
1A) Discussion of initiative and concept and obligation companies perform toward the
sociality. .....................................................................................................................................5
2B) explanation of issues faced by employee an 5 rules that the public and the client expect of
the employee. .............................................................................................................................6
3C) examination of the legal rights of the people under GDRP.................................................7
4TASK 3- Report ............................................................................................................................8
1A) collaborative working .........................................................................................................8
2B) strategies for collaborative working.....................................................................................8
3C) Values to guide.....................................................................................................................9
4D) Required international skills................................................................................................9
5E) Benefits of collaborative working........................................................................................9
6F) strategies to promote equality and diversity at workplace ................................................10
7G) How are the British values embedded into the collaborative working ?...........................10
8H) Consequences of Poor collaborative working....................................................................10
5CONCLUSION ...........................................................................................................................11
6REFERENCES............................................................................................................................12
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1 INTRODUCTION
Workplace values and ethics are established at the helm of the organization. Values and
ethics define what the company perceives as important regarding the behaviour of everyone from
the top-level executive to the employees working with consumers.
This report will explain the definition of the ethics and factors that influence the ethics
within the business. It will explain the importance of workplace ethics and laws in the UK that
promote the good ethical practices. This report also discussed the work done by rte TOMS and
Starbucks and explain the issues that faced and mentioned the 5 rules of the public client expect
employees in the both the organization. In the end task this report will discuss about the
collaborative working practices and their strategies. It will discussed the value and interpersonal
skills and benefits of collaborative working practices at the workplace.
2 TASK 1- Newspaper Article
Introduction
This new will explain the definition of the ethics and factors that influence the ethics
within the business. It will explain the importance of workplace ethics and laws in the UK that
promote the good ethical practices
1 A) Definition of ethics and factors that influence the ethics
Business ethics are the study of an appropriate business practices and the polices regard
to the controversial subjects including the corporate governance, Discrimination, Bribery and
corporate social responsibilities (Chenoweth, L. and McAuliffe., 2017). It is necessary for the
organization to work ethically, so they can create goodwill in the market, unethical behaviour by
the business can affect the image of the business and company can face various problems within
their business.
Type of ethics
' here are various type of ethics in the business it can cover the personal responsibilities,
loyalty, respect to the superiors, loyalty, fairness and community and environmental
responsibilities.
For examples- company should give equal opportunities to both mail and female employees so
their image can be improved in the market.
Factors that influence ethics
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 Employees bad behaviour with the customers affect the companies reputation.
 Desecration on the basis of equality affect
 performance of the company
 Strike by the employees
 bad behaviour with female employees.
There are some factors within the business environment that can affect the ethics of the
business and here are some of them.
Political factors
Political factors within the business environment can affect the ethics of the business.
Politically corrupted parties can demand for the funds to run their business which can be
unethical issues and create issues for the business if they cough giving the black money to the
political parties. It will rune their image within the market, and they can also lose their customers
and supplier and their whole business can get affectedly.
Special factors
Social factors like behaviour unethically with the employees and not providing them their
rights also come under the ethical behaviour. It is necessary for the company to provide rights to
their employees, so they can promote good business ethics and employees should get their rights
within the business.
Government rules and regulations
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Laws support Government regulations regarding the working conditions, product safety,
statutory warning etc. These provide some guidelines to the business managers in determining
what are acceptable or recognized standards and practices.
2 B) Importance of workplace ethics, including the positive and negative experience for
organization
Each and every organization have ethical code that helps the employees and leaders to
guide the decision-making and activities that have effective productivity and maintain its
reputation (Davani., 2020). Ethical behaviours at the workplace ensure that staff completes their
work with the integrity and the honesty and meets the goal and objectives of the business. It is
necessary for the workplace ethics because the workplace ethics promotes the team working and
collaborative practices and employees will be more open with each a other and communicate
effectively within the organization. Good ethical practices within the workplace also promotes
the good image in the public and established the positive reputation of the organizations in the
eyes of the public.
Facebook is the company who have bot positive and negative experience of the business
ethics. They face ethical issues using the US election of 2016 where their name goes out with the
Cambridge analytica who get caught for the data scandal with the face. This company make
application by using that they steal the data of 87 million people, including their personal
information. Due to loophole in the security of the Facebook, they were able tos teal the data and
this data was used for the campaigning of the Trump (Freudenreich, Lüdeke-Freund and
Schaltegger., 2020). This incident creates the trust issues for the Facebook in the public mind,
and they also face the legal problem. While the good business ethics like behaving good and
helping employees create positive impact on the business of Facebook, and they are one of the
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top social media company and good ethical practices also have the contribution to make them
number 1 social media site.
3 c) Uk laws to promote ethical practices in business
There are various laws made by the UK government, so they can promote positive
ethical practices within the business and here are some of them-
Natural environmental and Rural communities Act 2006
in the years 1986 the international whaling commission issues the impactor of whale in.
The Uk signed the effectively ending the trade. This act did not directly promote the whales but
added the firm layers of favourable status by the placing a responsibility on the public bodies to
preserves
Environmental law 1974
Uk government pass the environment laws to protect the environment, and they can
promote the positive environment practices within the business. This law create pressure on the
organizations to work ethically and contribute toward the environment by producing the eco-
friendly products and services.
Employees insurance act 1948
This law also made to provide safety to the employees and additional benefits which is
also a promotion of the positive activates thorough the laws. According to this law companies
have to provide life insurance benefits to their employees, so they can work without any fear. It
enables the companies to work ethically, and they can make their employees more effective.
The Uk modern Slavery Act 2015
The Act of the UK Modern Slavery was passed on the year 2015 and it was designed to
give law enforcement to fight against the modern slavery that is common nowadays and this is
unethical practices by the business (Hwang and Griffiths., 2017). This act take place by ensuring
that the perpetrators received suitability punishment and the enhancing the support and the
protection to the person who is victim. It can be applied on any of the organization carry out the
business in the United Kingdom and is the first document of its kind in Europe.
3 TASK 2- Creates a Cause and Effect
1 A) Discussion of initiative and concept and obligation companies perform toward the
sociality.
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Toms Uk mission is to donate the b pair of shoes for every sell and this donation will go
to the 60 million children to fulfilled their needs and similarly, Starbucks is also looking for the
diversify their workplace and provide opportunities for the certain cherts and by the 32025 they
also want to hire around 25000 volunteers as the part of the social responsible effort. This is the
concept of the Corporate social activities by the both the companies. Corporate social
responsibility is a broad concept that can take many forms depending on the company and
industry. Through CSR programs, philanthropy, and volunteer efforts, businesses can benefit
society while boosting their brands. It will help both TOM Uk and the Starbucks company top
create good image in the society and it their business responsibilities to give their contribution
toward the sociality (Hwang and Griffiths., 2017). There are many children's within the Uk who
do not having anything t were and shows donation by the TOM UK will provide helps to needy
children to wear a shoes and it will contribute toward the society and 60 million children will get
this benefits. Starbucks is international brand from US and having good reputation in all over the
world,.. thorough the 25000 volunteers, they can promote the charity wok and helps the people
thorough the social work. They will also able to create good image in the society and helps needy
people.
TESCO is the organizations that is working and active partner with the Health Charity
Partnership. This charity firm helping the people to live a healthy life ad TESCO is having
almost 5 years of partnership with the Chancer Research Uk, the British hart Foundation and the
Diabetes Uk. This partnership helps to inspire the TESCO colleagues, families and the customers
to make the healthier food choices and give message to live healthy life. Their aim is to brining
the measurable changes to the behaviour that can give the lower risk of the cancer in the people,
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heart problems and the circulatory disease and type 2 diabetes. It is helping this organization tor
create good image in the market and encourage the people to buy product and services from the
TESCO.
2 B) explanation of issues faced by employee an 5 rules that the public and the client expect
of the employee.
There are various issues can be faced by the employees if they are unaware of rte
companies rules that are applied on themselves. Here are some of the rules that are applied ion
the employees that are expected by the public, client from the employees./
Working hours
It is necessary for the employees to complete their working hours within the company. In
a commercial organization employees have to work around the 5 to 6 hours in UK and they
cannot leave their duty before completed their working hours. It is extracted by the public and
clients that employees will be available from the regular timing of the company and employees
will provide the services in company time (Lapadat., 2017). If any f the employee is aware of the
times then they can face some issues related to their salary and company can consider that day as
a LOP.
Leave and Absence
Companies provide the leaves to the employees and if the employee is unaware of the
leave polices of the company then they cannot take the benefits of the leave, and they will lose
their salary for the day whenever they will be absent or take leave. It is necessary for the
employees to ask about the companies leave polices before working, so they can get the paid
leaves.
Behaviour
One of the most important rules of the organization that employees have to follow is
behave professionally with the collogues and client and customers an give them respect. If
employees do not aware of these rules and behave bad with the customers and collogues then
they can be terminated by the organization, and they can lose their jobs. It will also affect their
future carriers if organization terminate them because other organizations see how they behave in
their previous organization.
Work performance
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Work performance is noted by the companies leaders and it organizational rule that
employees have to follow and give their best to show their performance to the company leaders.
If employees are not performing well in the organization then they can be fired from the job and
not performing well means that employees are also not able to satisfy the customers needs and
their demand (Laukkanen and Tura., 2020).
Work responsibly
Companies rules also cover the employees should work responsibly within the company
and perform their duty effectively. F employees are not performing their duty then it can affect
on their promotion within the company, and they will not able to grow within the company. It
makes necessary for the company to perform responsibly and helps company to delver better
services to the customers.
3 C) examination of the legal rights of the people under GDRP9
The data protection compliances is not that new and most of the business in the United
Kingdom will be familiar with the day protection Act (DPA). It has been around since 1998
which mean the current law over the 20 years old. This act of established to protect the legal
rights of the people and the European commission was also aware of the need of implementing
this law to protect the privacy of the individual public . This consequence in the adoption of the
Data Protection Directive in 1995. This Directing seeks to defend individuals’ personal info. At
the same time, it recognizes that the free flow of individual information within the European
Union has economic benefits which need service. This is a tricky balance. The changes in the
laws are seeking to maintain the balance but bring the things to get the updates. In year 2018 the
DPA was replaced by the GDPR. Whilst the overriding the purpose f the GDRP is much more
similar to the DPA, there are crucial differences which the business should be aware of. These
sines have the sprung largely out of inadequacies identified over the last 20 years in the DPA
which the GDPR has sought to address.
4 TASK 3- Report
1 A) collaborative working
Collaborative working and partnership protectives at the workplace of business take into
the account for the employees experiences, ideas, skills and Experiences. When individuals work
in a team then can work more effectively and take less time to do the task as compare to doing
task individually (Porter, and et.al, 2018). Employees also get change to learn new skills from
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the other team members, and they also share their experiences in the working practices and these
skills can be used for the carrier development for the employees. Collaboratives working
practices also helps company to achieve their goals and objectives, and they can take
competitive advantages.
2 B) strategies for collaborative working
' There are various strategies that can be used at the workplace and it can include -
creating common goals
Leaders can create common goals for the team so each and every team, members work
together to achieve those common goals.
Assigning roles
Creation of the roles can also be good strategy for the collaborative working. Company
leaders can assign the employees with the roles for the same task. Employees will work in the
team they will work according t their skills and role within the team.
Create flow of communication
Increase in the flow of communication can also create collaboration within the
workplace. Leaders and managers are responsible to create group at the workplace so the flow of
communication can be build.
3 C) Values to guide
Collaborative working practices also add the value for the company and this value will
guide us to create collaborative working environment for the employees where employees can
helps each other and work with each other in the task. It will enable the organization to task
competitive advantages within the market where they are operating their business, and they will
bale to show their presence in the market as well.
4 D) Required international skills
It is necessary for m to have some interpersonal skills to implement the collaborative
working practices and it can include the communication skills that will guide the team at the
workplace to work toward the gaols. Motivating others will also be helpful interpersonal skills
that will helps me to organize the collaborative working practices. It can also include the critical
thinking skills, having the new and creative idea will make the collaborative practice's more
effective and employees will able to build trust with each other thorough the collaborative
working practices.
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5 E) Benefits of collaborative working
There are various benefits of the collaborative working at the workplace of rth company
and here are some of them-
Build trust
' Collaborative working practices build the trust among the employees because they
communicate with each other and employees can understand each other that enable the trust
(Roos and Hahn., 2019).
Increase flow of communication
Collaborative working practices also enable the flow of communication at the workplace
because in the group employees have to communication with each other to complete the task
which means the flow of the communication will also increase.
Skill development
Collaborative working practices give chance to the team member to share their skills with
each others, and they get chance with each other to develop new skills. It is beneficial for them
because these skills can helps them in the future development.
6 F) strategies to promote equality and diversity at workplace
Here are strategies to promote equality and diversity at the workplace at the workplace of
the company.
Creative diverse environment
Diverse environment can be created by recruiting the both gender employees equally and
giving them the equal chances to b grow within the workplace so the environment of equality
and diversity can be build by the company.
Promote female employees
company can promote the females employees at the workplace that can helps them to
promote the equality and diversity the workplace and females employees can also work on the
higher level and position within the company.
Global operation
Global expansion of the business can also help the company create diverse workplace
because employees on the international business come from the various countries, culture and
speask various languages. If they will wok together then diverse workplace can be created.
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7 G) How are the British values embedded into the collaborative working ?
The British values can also be emended into the collaborative working by following the 4
laws if the British value that include the rules of law, companies can implement the laws related
to the collaborative working to promote the collaboration within the workplace, respect &
tolerance- respect is important between the employees and it can be build thorough the
communication and tolerance can be credited thorough making them understand the importance
of tolerance and giving the employees higher responsibilities. Individual liberty can also be
provided to employees for the so their opinion can be useful (Roos and Hahn., 20190
8 H) Consequences of Poor collaborative working
There are some consequences of poor collaboration working and it include -
Wasting time
Employees time is valuable and poor collaborative working can waste the time of the
employees and the company both. There should be proper understating and clear the goals and
objectives to make better collaborative working otherwise it can be poor.
Demotivation in employees
Employees can be demotivate if company implement the poor collaborative working
practices, and they cannot be focused on their work.
5 CONCLUSION
As per the report has been explained the definition of the ethics and factors that influence
the ethics within the business. It has been discussed the importance of workplace ethics and laws
in the UK that promote the good ethical practices thorough the laws. This report also has been
discussed the work done by rte TOMS and Starbucks and explained the issues that faced and
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mentioned the 5 rules of the public client expect employees in the both the organization. In the
end task this report has been concluded the collaborative working practices and their strategies. It
has been analysed the value and interpersonal skills and benefits of collaborative working
practices at the workplace.
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